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Coolidge-Dawes Lincoln Tour campaign truck photograph, 1924

Extent:
1 item
Abstract:
In 1924, Republican presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge organized The Lincoln Tour, a 56-day, cross-country road rally of 100,000 automobiles that was designed to be a continuous political parade along the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental road for automobiles in the country. This is a photograph of a truck from the Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes campaign's Lincoln Tour.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Chinese genre drawings, circa 1860-1912 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 volume ([230] pages of drawings)
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Two volumes of drawings of Chinese life; on double leaves of pith paper. Some are colored. Bound in silk brocade, typical of albums meant for the western tourist trade.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Salesman's samples of late Victorian prints and embossed die-cuts, approximately 1890s (inclusive)

Extent:
4 oversize box and 2 item (2 suitcases)
Abstract:
These salesman's samples of late Victorian prints and embossed die-cuts consist of 150 chromolithographic posters with two traveling cases. The collection includes idealized portraits of women, comic scenes, prints of babies and children, and genre and landscape scenes.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Baltimore Collection, 1850-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.66 linear foot (2 boxes)
Abstract:
The Baltimore Collection contains fifty-three photographic portraits in several print formats. The majority feature Black individuals, although most of those individuals have not been identified. The photographs were found in Maryland. Several have been determined to have been taken in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Notebook of handicraft instructions, approximately 1900s (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume
Abstract:
This notebook contains twenty-two handwritten pages of instructions, illustrations, and samples for a making a portfolio, working with metals and leather, and constructing a scrapbook and a tape-sewn book, as well as threading a handloom.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Rachel Leah Lindeman album, 1862-1877 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume
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The Rachel Leah Lindeman album is a presentation album which was given to Lindeman on March 18, 1862, in honor of her birthday. The album, which contains thirty-four pages of photographs, poems, artwork (pencil sketches, ink drawings, cartoons, illuminations, watercolors, etc.), elaborate calligraphy, and pressed flowers dating from 1862 to 1877, is a fine example of a Victorian presentation album with colonial Indian influences.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Scrapbook of automobiles, 1936-1954 (inclusive) 1950-1954 (bulk)

Extent:
1 volume (48 pages)
Abstract:
This single volume scrapbook contains advertisements for automobiles, as clipped from magazines published during the 1950s, particularly the Saturday Evening Post, plus an occasional newspaper clipping.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Children's scrapbook belonging to "A.R.", approximately 1850-1899 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume (approximately 20 pages)
Abstract:
This nineteenth-century children's scrapbook bears the initials "A.B." and the date 1891 in cross stitch on a small oval canvas label affixed to a red cloth cover. The scrapbook features both German and English trade cards; collectible scraps of flowers, animals, children, and flowers; visiting cards; New Year cards; color printed cartoons of Grimm fairy tales and rhymes in German; and other color printed images.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Nineteenth-century children's scrap album, 1880-1885 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume (40 pages)
Abstract:
The creator of this late nineteenth-century scrapbook is unknown, though the contents suggest that the compiler was a child who may have lived near Albany, New York. This scrap album includes chromolithographed scraps, trade cards, religious cards, visiting cards, and larger color-printed images.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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